Hi,
I've run into the same problem this morning. I'm using debian testing
and, right now, all packages are up to date (kernel 2.6.12).
Though i'm not 100% sure, I also think that the problem is related with
the login package, since it is one of the few packages I updated this
morning.
Searching the net I've found
(http://cvs.pld.org.pl/shadow/ChangeLog?rev=1.16) that some of these
login.defs' parameters seems to be enabled or not at compile time
depending on some pam related stuff. "#ifndef USE_PAM".
More over, the file "login.defs.dpkg-dist" (I'm not really sure what is
that *.dpkg-dist file, but it was modified a few weeks ago, so it's
older than the actual login.defs file) says:
################# OBSOLETED BY PAM ##############
# #
# These options are now handled by PAM. Please #
# edit the appropriate file in /etc/pam.d/ to #
# enable the equivelants of them.
#
###############
#MOTD_FILE
#DIALUPS_CHECK_ENAB
#LASTLOG_ENAB
#MAIL_CHECK_ENAB
#OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB
#PORTTIME_CHECKS_ENAB
#SU_WHEEL_ONLY
#CRACKLIB_DICTPATH
#PASS_CHANGE_TRIES
#PASS_ALWAYS_WARN
#ENVIRON_FILE
#NOLOGINS_FILE
#ISSUE_FILE
#PASS_MIN_LEN
#PASS_MAX_LEN
#ULIMIT
It says that NOLOGINS_FILE is handled by pam. That configuration file
also doesn't make use of any of the problematic configuration options.
So, could it be possible that the login package has installed a wrong
configuration file, an out of date one?
I will check at my home's computer (still not updated) how the
login.defs file looks like.
best regards.
Moisés Garín
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